Grape Recipes

[cathy79]

Help - I picked up about heaps of grapes very cheap the other day as the store was closing for 4 days and had to clear everything.

Now I need to use them up.  I've made grape jam, but I need some other ideas.  I've seen lots of salad recipes, but would prefer baking type recipes if they exist. 

Any ideas please?

[Amanda]

How about this?
http://www.artofcookery.com/sweetgrapebread.htm

[judydawn]

Had a quick browse Cathy and these 3 appeal to me

http://www.cuisine.com.au/recipe/Grape-and-poppyseed-muffins-with-lime-and-honey-butter

http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/5860/apple-and-grape-pie.aspx

http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/10497/concord-grape-foccacia

[JulieO]

Cathy I made a Maggie Beer cake featuring grapes last year which was especially nice. The first time I made one big cake and then decided to make again using 3 x 10cm tins and gave one each to my mum and DH's mum for Mother's Day.  The grapes & lemon go really well together and I remember the grapes were especially lovely last year.  I must make it again.   

Here it is:   

GRAPE & LEMON CAKE
3 large eggs (x 55 g)
150g castor sugar
4 tblsp of light olive oil
60g butter (melted)
100ml (5 tblsp) milk
200g Plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
Grated zest of 4 lemons (I used 2 huge lemons)
A good grating of nutmeg
2 ¼ cups fresh grapes for filling (add 1 tblsp pl flour to mix with grapes, but don’t add the flour to the mix, just the grapes.)

Topping
¾ cup grapes
20g Demerara sugar
icing sugar for dusting.

Pre-heat  oven to 180°C  fan off and grease and line a 23 cm springform cake tin. (see note below)

Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thick. Add the combined oil, butter and milk and mix well.
Stir in the lemon zest and nutmeg. (or use KA on speed 1) Add flour & baking powder.  Beat until just mixed. Stir in grapes with wooden spoon/spatula.
Pour into tin & bake for 20 mins

Remove cake from oven, sprinkle with Demerara sugar and scatter grapes on top.  Return to the oven and bake for approx 40 – 50 mins or until skewer comes out clean.

Remove from the oven, cool for 5-10 minutes before removing cake from tin and base.
Dust with icing sugar.

Delicious served warm with a dollop of double cream.

Note:  Also made 3 x 10cm cakes out of the mixture to give for Mother’s Day.

[Thermomixer]

There is a schiacciata recipe (may be listed under Sweet pizza) in the Vegetarian cookbook - or on the blog (need to copy it over to here) http://thermomix-er.blogspot.com/2010/01/schiacciata-con-luva-tuscan-grape-bread.html



There are lots of grape tarts that I have seen and even this recipe for grape bavarois http://thermomix-er.blogspot.com/2009/12/thermomix-grape-bavarois.html



Good luck


WOW - while typing JulieO just whipped up a great recipe - thanks

[Meagan]

If they are seedless which I assume they are. You can freeze them and eat them frozen - yummo. I made an instant icecream sorbet type thing with grapes that were frozen a while back I will try and dig up some pics

[judydawn]

Who would have thought - so many lovely grape recipes.  They are not just for eating off the bunch 

[cathy79]

Wow, some fantastic recipes here.  Thanks everyone.  Will let you know what I end up doing and report back.

Also, in my own searching I've found lots of grape muffins.  Seems you can use grapes in your favourite muffin recipe, so may try that (as well) as we're huge muffin fans.

[cookie1]

You can pickle grapes too. I haven't done it for years but we liked them.  I think I got my recipes from the CWA book.

[brazen20au]

julieO, they look scrumptious!

[JulieO]

Thankyou Brazen, it's a lovely tasting cake. 

[cathy79]

JulieO, your cake looks fantastic and I would love to try it, but as several members of our family are very allergic to citrus, that would be a lot of cake for me.

So I went with Thermomixer's Sweet Grape Pizza recipe.  Was quite nice, a little too sweet so would probably reduce the sugar next time.  I did have trouble getting the dough to double in size, but cooked it anyway and still turned out.  Looks so special, and I love recipes that look and taste like a lot of work, but are actually deceptively quick and easy (ignoring rising time).

I did activate my instant yeast in the warm milk and sugar, and it was very frothy, before adding the rest of the ingredients.  Is it possible to "over-activate" yeast before continuing?  Why wouldn't it have doubled in size?

[Thermomixer]

It is possible to kill the yeast if it gets tooooooo acidic (?) from bubbling away too long but unlikely in this case.